$ cve CVE-2008-2070 JSON

CVE-2008-2070 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.2% (pctl 82)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

The WHM interface 11.15.0 for cPanel 11.18 before 11.18.4 and 11.22 before 11.22.3 allows remote attackers to bypass XSS protection and inject arbitrary script or HTML via repeated, improperly-ordered "<" and ">" characters in the (1) issue parameter to scripts2/knowlegebase, (2) user parameter to scripts2/changeip, (3) search parameter to scripts2/listaccts, and other unspecified vectors.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS	2.18% — more likely to be exploited than 82% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-79
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2008-05-12
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
cpanel	cpanel

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	cPanel 11.x - '/scripts2/knowlegebase?issue' Cross-Site Scripting	2008-05-09
exploit-db	cPanel 11.x - '/scripts2/changeip?user' Cross-Site Scripting	2008-05-09
exploit-db	cPanel 11.x - '/scripts2/listaccts?search' Cross-Site Scripting	2008-05-09

References

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